In the fireside chat at Breakpoint 2025, JPMorgan's Scott Lucas reviewed the key milestones in the shift of institutional attitudes. He straightforwardly stated that if we turn back the clock a year, completing similar transactions on public chains would almost be a "zero probability event" in his view.
Scott said that over the past year, multiple factors have changed: on one hand, adjustments in rules and regulatory environment; on the other hand, overall market dynamics and institutional risk appetite. Previously, in the US market, opportunities for institutional participation in public chains had long been suppressed, and many issues could not even be seriously raised or discussed. Now, this space is being reopened.
Scott emphasized that this change is positive in itself because it has, for the first time, allowed institutions to calmly consider a more fundamental question: including blockchain and a whole set of new technologies, in the future